Arctic (Global Adventures): After discovering a “… unusual underwater mountain on the Arctic sea floor,” the race is on again for Canada and the United States to renew claims that their boundaries extend beyond their existing 200-nautical-mile economic zones, granted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Many countries including Russia [...]

Austria shares a big part of the Eastern Alps with Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as parts of southern Germany, northern Italy and Slovenia. The highest mountain in the Eastern Alps is Piz Bernina (4,049 m) in Switzerland. With the exception of other peaks in the Bernina range, the next highest mountains are the Ortler [...]